Red hair a red flag for Andy Dalton?

Posted by Michael David Smith on April 20, 2011, 4:09 PM EDT

AP

From the “Now I’ve heard everything” department: An NFL coach says he’s concerned about whether TCU quarterback Andy Dalton can lead an NFL team — not because of the content of his character but because of the color of his hair.

Peter King’s story in this week’s Sports Illustrated about the way teams scrutinize quarterbacks concludes with that detail: An unnamed coach couldn’t think of any great read-headed quarterbacks and admitted to thinking that Dalton, a redhead, might be lacking something that quarterbacks need.

On the other hand Dalton does recall attending an interview session with Cam Newton where the interviewer came into the waiting room and asked “Which one of you is the mobile, athletic guy and which is the stubborn and bad tempered?”.

For that teams sake I am going to pray that it was not a head coach or any coach with any real pull in the organization….because if it is you have exposed the flaw of some cellar dwellers problem..while good teams evaluate talent this coach is focusing on hair color and lord knows whatever else

Being a Ginger is something you’re born with. Coloring your hair black doesn’t make you not a Ginger just like a non-Ginger coloring his hair red doesn’t make him a Ginger.
Good thing Dalton is only soulless and doesn’t have a strange last name as well. Being a Ginger with a weird last name for a quarterback? He’d have no chance.

This is without a doubt the dumbest thing I’ve heard in this draft year. It’s right up there with the reporter that asked Doug Williams at the Super Bowl – “How long have you been a black Quarterback?”

Dalton’s Agent, One Alfred E. Nueman, released a statement that this news regarding hair color should not affect his draft status. He has been working hard with his strength and conditioning coach , Howdy Doody, who claims Dalton has increased his rapid one arm pullups to 50 reps per minute.

As I recall, Ginger!Cartman led the Gingers to kidnap every other youngster in town. He also rented the auditorium, arranged the catering, talked the Gingers into a mass sacrifice, THEN talked them out of it. Sounds like someone you’d want running the show.

“It has been proven that redheads have a genetically lower threshold for pain.”

has been shown false (but it was just Mythbusters, so take it for what it’s worth)

Natural redheads have a lower pain tolerance than people of other hair colors.

BUSTED

The test was to put one hand in an ice bath at 1°C for as long as subjexts could endure. Two dozen people of each group (redheads and non-redheads) took part. The average time for the redheads was 132.2 seconds, while that for the non-redheads was 79.1 seconds.